Cockroaches

bloodyroarxx

So we are moving because our place is infested with cockroaches.

When packing my games specifically the PC games in boxed should I open them to make sure none are in there or am I ok?

Erandus

I would double check basically everything before you boxed it, and then try my hardest not to leave the boxes sitting around in the house. All it takes is one pregnant female hitching a ride in a crevice and you'll have the same problem all over again in a couple weeks.

OremLK

Ick, what a mess. If it were me, due to my massive roach phobia, I'd just pack a roach trap in each box and hope not to find any dead ones when I unpacked everything.

Kato

We lived in a house that was a roach infestation at one point as well. The main thing to worry about is your furniture. They can easily get an egg or a pregnant mamma hoachie (roach) to tag along. They love to get in your couches and other furniture...even your mattress. They can hide away in there if you are not careful. When we moved out of the roach house, we moved all of our big stuff to the new place. All the furniture and big boxes...places that would be easy for them to hide in. We put them all in the center of each respective room and immediately after putting them in there, we fired off several bug bombs throughout the new place. That way, if anything DID hitch a ride, then it was most likely dead after the bombs went off. Yes, that means that you have to delay some of your moving and unpacking for 3 or 4 hours while you wait for the bug bomb to clear out...but it's well worth the effort.

Dman

There are a ton of things that eat cockroaches, but lots of them you don't want in your house.

Therefore just to be different I'm going to recommend you get a gecko (cool lizard), and let him run wild eating all the roaches. Once your roach problem is solved, but him one of those big glass tanks and feed him grasshoppers or whatever.

OremLK

The problem with that is that lizards, naturally, tend to crap. I hear it's not a huge deal once it dries but it would be something of a nuisance until the thing cleaned up the roach problem nonetheless. Also, dogs and cats probably wouldn't mix well with this plan.

Also, for larger roaches you'd need a big gecko, like a Tokay Gecko, and they tend to be pretty mean motherfuckers if you mess with them.

bloodyroarxx

Thanks for the help guys.

supabeast

I would keep all the discs and manuals and toss the cardboard PC boxes. If you have an especially bad infestation toss the CD/DVD jewlboxes, too, in case there are egg cases in the crevices or under the covers. If you really want to keep the boxes you could always put them in a storage unit for a few months to give any roaches time to be born and move out in search of food.

Andrew_Jay

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vonPoonBurGer

Andrew_Jay wrote: »

OremLK wrote: »

Also, for larger roaches you'd need a big gecko, like a Tokay Gecko, and they tend to be pretty mean motherfuckers if you mess with them.

Then you just get a Cobra to deal with the Gecko . . . and then a Mongoose.

Or the OP could just get a cat. Cat's have excellent night vision, are most active at the same time roaches are most active (i.e. when it's dark), and usually like to eat insects. In short, they are natural roach predators. They're also usually fluffy, cute and easy to housebreak.

My girlfriend used to live in an apartment complex that was called Cockroach Towers by most people we went to school with. You could hear the roaches scuttling up and down the garbage chute, so the name was definitely appropriate. Despite being surrounded by roaches, we never saw any in her unit. Part of that was her general cleanliness, but part was due to the cats eating any that came in looking for food.

Dr Mario Kart

I've always heard that roaches hate Bay leaves something fierce. So you could have those in your boxes

supabeast

Dr Mario Kart wrote: »

I've always heard that roaches hate Bay leaves something fierce. So you could have those in your boxes

That’s not going to do anything to keep roach eggs in the boxes from hatching after the move.

Anyway, it occurred to me that, because the boxes are small, you could always take out the discs and pop the boxes in the freezer for a night to kill the eggs before packing them up and getting them out of the house ASAP.